DUSHANBE, September 18, Asia-Plus  -- The CIS Executive Committee and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of migration and combating human trafficking in Minsk, Belarus, tomorrow.

Ms. Maria Gutsalo, a spokeswoman for the CIS Executive Committee, told Asia-Plus today that the document determines foundations of bilateral cooperation between the CIS Executive Committee and the IOM in the field of migration and countering illegal migration and trafficking in persons.  

According to her, the document will ease getting information abut different tendencies, problems and opportunities of migration, as well promote analysis and development of new priority areas of the migration policy, expansion of use of biometric technologies in management of migration in the CIS states and use of the IOM experience in work of the relevant CIS bodies.  

The memorandum-signing ceremony will be attended by the CIS Executive Committee Chairman Yuir Lebedev and the IOM Director General Brunson McKinley, the spokeswoman said.